[aggregation-styles] Medium This post is too long. It takes 19 minutes to read according to Medium. It has been viewed 1.5M times in less than 24 hours. You should read it, too. I wrote this post on Facebook on Thursday Night, March 12th 2020. Since I wrote it, the post...
Newt Gingrich: I Am in Italy Amid the Coronavirus Crisis. America Must Act Now—And Act Big
[aggregation-styles] Newsweek The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic poses two threats: public health and economic. I am living in Italy, where my wife, Callista, is the ambassador to the Holy See. I have watched first-hand as the Italian government has worked hard to contain the coronavirus by imposing strong public health measures...
There’s a Giant Sick Leave Hole in Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday night celebrated the coronavirus legislation that passed early Saturday as providing paid sick leave to American workers affected by the pandemic. She neglected to mention the fine print. In fact, the bill guarantees sick leave only to about...
Coronavirus Will Bankrupt More People Than It Kills — and That's the Real Global Emergency
[aggregation-styles] Independent Coronavirus’s economic danger is exponentially greater than its health risks to the public. If the virus does directly affect your life, it is most likely to be through stopping you going to work, forcing your employer to make you redundant, or bankrupting your business. The trillions of dollars...
The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Brought out the Worst of Donald Trump
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post The outbreak of an epidemic is something like a natural disaster — a spontaneous, accidental eruption that is no one’s fault. But that does not mean we can do little about it and just wait for it to run its deadly course. The evidence is now...
‘Moderate’ Biden Backs Radical California Regulation That Destroyed Freelance Jobs
[aggregation-styles] Washington Examiner As the Democratic Party coalesces around 2020 candidate Joe Biden as an alternative to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, onlookers have taken it for granted that the former vice president represents a “moderate” Democratic option. While this is true, it’s only due to the radical extent of Sanders’s...
Five Americans Living in Social Democratic Norway Explain Why Bernie Sanders Is So Appealing
[aggregation-styles] Common Dreams We are five Americans living in social democratic Norway. We think that our experiences provide a unique perspective as to why it is that so many Americans so strongly support the reforms called for by the platform of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Our time in Norway also helps...
Iran Has Far More Coronavirus Cases Than It Is Letting On
[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic You are standing before a huge barrel of apples. You can’t see the apples, but you can reach in and pick them out. Most are delicious, but a very small number of them are rotten—just about one in 12,000, your friend assures you. You reach in blindly...
How the Senate Paved the Way for Coronavirus Profiteering, and How Congress Could Undo It
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept Before a vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic is within view, the Trump administration has already walked back its initial refusal to promise that any remedy would be affordable to the general public. “We can’t control that price because we need the private sector to invest,” Alex...
How the Populist Right Is Exploiting Coronavirus
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Medical experts are trying to map out the health effects of coronavirus. Economists are estimating its economic fallout. Yet predicting its broader political consequences is likely to be the biggest challenge of all. The historian William McNeill once tried to understand why the natives of...